Gamdias Gaming Peripherals Zeus Mouse, Hermes Keyboard, Hephaestus Headset - Computex 2013
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·2014-05-07
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Linus tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by western digital our
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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair vengeance and our trusted retail partner
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is ncix.com hey guys we're here at gamdias and i
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know what you're probably thinking is slick another keyboard video seriously
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no no guys okay first we're going to do the mouse then we'll do the keyboard of
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course i had to get to that then we'll do the headset then we're going to do this interesting thing right here so
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first i'm going to go over the mouse like i just said at first it looks nuts there's tons of
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stuff all over the place there's 11 macro keys
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to do all over the place it's all programmable they have a nice software
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for all of their things tied into one let's actually jump up to that real quick so this is their software right
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now i just have the mouse and keyboard plugged in so at the bottom you can see
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mouse and keyboard are available so one piece of software all your peripherals
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as long as they're all from gamdias all right we're going to jump back down not
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spend too much time with software as it's still mostly in beta if i flip the
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mouse over you'll find three scroll wheelie type things right here as
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you can see they're connected directly if i can spin this out to the plastic
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panel that is closest to them so this one controls this panel this one
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controls this panel and this one controls this panel making it a very
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adjustable mouse apparently there's also going to be options for other plates to
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go on this as well and on this side they noted that some people with smaller
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hands had problems getting their pinkies caught in here so on the actual
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production model that will be released they're going to have a plug that can go there temporarily and they can remove it
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later on if they don't want it personally i would leave it out because i think it looks great without it and my
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pinky is not going to be caught there i currently have the most set up in a
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configuration for my hand so i usually claw grip mice and this mouse isn't big
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enough for me to palm grip anyways but i never problem grip anything so it's not really that big of a deal
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so it fits me perfectly right now which is actually kind of nice every finger
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goes into its exact spot that i would want it to go to my pinky doesn't drag
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along the mat my thumb doesn't drag along the mat everything is working fine
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it's a fine looking mouse we're going to move on to the keyboard now again slick
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another keyboard review this one does actually have some interesting things
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first off i noticed this little camera button and that intrigued me it's a
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recording button or a streaming button or a network streaming button or
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whatever you want it on release it's not ready yet but i have been told what you can do is
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you can live stream with it or you can local record with it or you can stream
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to another computer in the house so if you have someone with a home theater computer set up to the tv you can stream
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to that your dad or your family or your mom or whoever wants to watch you play
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whatever game you're playing can watch there i don't know if you have anyone that wants to just sit and watch you
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play games but that is a cool option
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now moving forward if i pull this key off they'll probably not be too happy
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that i didn't use a key puller but i don't know whatever so
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sorry gamdias it looks like cherry blue switches it
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looks fairly standard but then there's this little square around the switch
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that is a way of dampening the press so it doesn't actually bottom out which
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makes it quite a bit quieter as if i'm gonna put the mic there
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i don't know how attuned you are with cherry blues but they're really really loud you can hear the click and then you
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can hear it slam against the bottom of the keyboard if you press all the way down like i do i always press all the
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way down it's a bad habit but it is a habit so that dampens it and also makes less
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total travel time and makes it spring up faster they're clean claiming that is a
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type of hybrid switch and it'll feel more like a red than it does like a blue
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i'm not so sure how i feel about that i like the blues and i like dampeners but
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i'm not sure how much a red user would be able to actually relate the two
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that's up to you i would recommend trying it out yourself as i do with all
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mechanical keyboards up at the top here they've got a usb hub one of them with
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uh mic and audio headers not headers plugs sorry about that talked a lot
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today jumping down to the bottom they have a wrist rest it's a massive wrist
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rest any 7g users will that like their huge wrist rest will like this one thing
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to notice is it's magnetic clips in very
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nicely and if you take it off spin it around and put it on top of your
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keyboard it actually works as a dust cover this is kind of interesting i do
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carry dust covers with my keyboards just to keep them nice and pristine and if
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you want a place that is very dusty this could help you out it's just interesting
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added functionality that gamdias has done you'll notice that their logo
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actually says zeus on it that is just actually their logo they are gambias as
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it says on the wrist rest moving past the keyboard we get to
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hephaestus this thing is huge and crazy
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and has heat sinks and vibration motors
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and everything so basically i'm going to jump into the heatsinks they're saying
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gamer's ears get hot that sounds pretty accurate to me so they have heatsinks in
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here to try and keep the overall temperature of the um of the cans cold
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sorry for using terminology cans there that's what some people call
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ear cups on headphones huge huge soft cups they feel quite nice
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up here there's a little bit not quite as much as down here but this is the
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more important part in my opinion if say you're in a game someone throws a
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grenade and it blows up behind you depending on what side they're on one of
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the ear muffs will vibrate and i believe if it's central they'll both vibrate
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yeah so if it's central they will both vibrate if it's on one side one will vibrate just a little bit of added
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functionality there they're like calling it a added
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element so that's kind of interesting or forced to mention the boom mic is very
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adjustable so if you somehow have a mouth that's over here when the rest of
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your face is over there you can do that or you can very easily have it wherever
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you want it it seems to be able to be pretty stiff wherever you want it so
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that is pretty cool these things i tested them out the bass
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is pretty insane it can pound like
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pretty much no other of course there is others but pretty much no other bass is
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awesome i noticed a little bit of siblings on some highs but those weren't
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that bad and that brings us to this guy
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this guy's quite interesting it heats to your monitor through 3m stickers and
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it's actually not that bad apparently if you take it off it doesn't leave
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and it won't pull any of the paint off your monitor although it may leave some
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residue basically what this is is it's cable management for one cable i highly
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suggest your mouse as they have it set up here and then on the back if i can
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rotate this monitor uh
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i'm getting some people trying to help me here we'll try and get this done i'm going to unplug the monitor actually
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there we go
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there we go nope this side this side this side that side there you go usb 2.0
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hub on the back that is actually pretty cool and then this you're probably one
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wondering what that was doing there i had the headphones hooked up there and
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that's actually what makes sense a lot of people don't have headphone holders
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personally i have sennheisers that came with a headphone holder and i love it if
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you don't have a headphone holder this is not a bad idea
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